Most k-12 students in the US are currently being taught that "slavery was not so bad" and that "lynchings and violence never happened"? This seems like a massive and very grave scandal if it's, you know, true.pic.twitter.com/USLl1bOu1E
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Most k-12 students in the US are currently being taught that "slavery was not so bad" and that "lynchings and violence never happened"? This seems like a massive and very grave scandal if it's, you know, true.pic.twitter.com/USLl1bOu1E
Jeet Heer Retweeted Joshua Benton
You might want to look into what is actually taught in approved texts.https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1404245820103348227 …
Jeet Heer added,
Are textbooks about Louisiana history actually representative of the US history books assigned in the history classes most American kids take?
My SC public history class was taught by a Daughter of the Confederacy who called the war the "War of Northern Aggression," and made us do things like grave rubbings of confederate graves, and see a confederate museum that proudly flew the stars and bars, and this was like 97.
And it was a half black school. So yes? In more of the south than I think most people realize.
Joy-Ann Reid's tweet wasn't about the South - it was about the US. I don't doubt that kids in Southern schools are taught a whitewashed version of American history. But the South isn't like the rest of the U.S.
K-12 education isn't federal matter but state one. Louisiana might be outlier in extremism but historically USA education has whitewashed slavery and not just in the South.
The fact that it isn't a federal matter but a state one is precisely why it makes no sense to point to a textbook about Louisiana history - not even US history - as evidence of what kids outside the South are being taught about slavery.
The South is a big chunk of America! And likely pattern is outright apologia in South and whitewashing and minimization outside of it. (Subject to proviso that there has been a lot of efforts to change recently -- which is one reason for anti-CRT moral panic).
this is the misallocation of wokeness problem. The states where 1619ism addresses a real need are the least likely to see it.
(Though obviously any good faith appraisal here would look at the US History books used in Louisiana, not just the ones used for teaching state history.)
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